Moving Picture World (May-Jun 1925)

June 27, 1925 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 989 Snappy comedy is visible in “How Baxter Butted In,” which Warner Brothers will release with Dorothy Devore and Matt Moore in the cast Five New Companies Start Work at the Warner Studio THESE are busy days at the Warner Bros, plant in Los Angeles. Not only is every bit of studio space occupied with production work — besides several locations elsewhere — but scenarists, adaptors and casting directors are working overtime in preparation for other productions. A wide range of subjects is covered in the attractions now under way — so wide that even if the total of productions on the Warner 1925-26 schedule fell far short of forty, the present number, nearly every fan would still find in the list something to satisfy his particular preference. Having been in a Lubitsch comedy, “Kiss Me Again,” and in another comedy, Marie Prevost is now to do a melodrama. Her next picture will be “Wanted by the Police.” Also included in the cast are Clive Brook, John Patrick, Charles Conklin, Claude Gillingwater and Matilda Brundage. Another interesting announcement of the present week tells of the selection of James Flood to direct Lowell Sherman in his first Warner picture, “Satan in Sables,” from Bradley King’s alluring novel. Mr. Sherman has arrived in California and is enthusiastic over the prospect of getting started at once. “Satan in Sables” will be the fourth picture directed by Mr. Flood, who formerly was assistant to Ernst Lubitsch and to D. W. Griffith. In Mr. Sherman’s support will be June Marlowe, John Harron, Gertrude Astor, Frank Butler and Otto Hoffman. Herman Raymaker, who lately finished “Below the Line,” will direct the Vitagraph production, “The Love Hour,” from the story by Gregory Rogers, with scenario by Bess Meredyth. In the cast selected are Ruth Clifford, Huntly Gordon, Louise Fazenda, Willard Louis, John Roche, Gayne Whitman and Charles Farrell. W. Van Dyke has been borrowed from Fox to wield the megaphone in the production of Vitagraph’s “The Ranger of the Big Pines,” from Hamlin Garland’s “Cavanaugh, Forest Ranger.” In the cast are such popular players as Kenneth Harlan, Helene Costello, Eugenie Besserer, Will Walling, Lew Harvey, Joan Standing, Robert J. Graves, Harvey Clark and Eugene Paulette. The scenario is by Hope Loring and Louis Lighton. Harry Beaumont, who directed Kathleen Norris’s “Rose of the World,” will perform the same service with Harry Leon Wilson’s “His Majesty Bunker Bean,” in which Matt Moore will star, with Dorothy Devore in the leading woman’s role. Julien Josephson has prepared the scenario for this production. Completes Second Picture for Chadwick “Blue Blood,” the second of the Chadwick series starring George Walsh, is now completed, and will be ready for release at an early date. This production is in keeping with the Chadwick policy for this series and offers Walsh in another of his action comedy drama stories affording the star an opportunity to display his athletic achievements. The picture was directed by Scott Dunlop, and in addition to the star includes a sterling cast among whom is the new Chadwick find, Joan Meredith, who has been put under a long term contract by this producer. Pathe Outing June 20 The employees of the Home Office and the New York and Newark Branches of Pathe Exchange, Inc., will hold an outing on Saturday, June 20th at the Panchard Inn, Massapequa, Long Island. The Patheites will make the trip to Massapequa via busses leaving the Pathe Building, 35 West 45th Street, New York, at 9:30 A. M. The outing will be in the nature of a general social get-together of the Pathe employees. Golf, baseball, and dancing are scheduled. Noel Smith has been signed to direct “The Clash of the Wolves,” Charles A. Logue’s story, which gives a fine opportunity for the Warner wonder dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, to appear at his best. So far Dolores Costello, Don Alvarado and June Marlowe have been engaged for the cast. Lionel Barrymore, supported by Mildred Harris, in scenes from “A Man of Iron,” seventh of the Chadwick Nine it